Blend Your Imagination: Blender Character Megacourse

This new Blender 3.4 character creator course contains all need to know about character Modelling and Sculpting. Even as a newbie to Blender, it explains all the basics, covering everything from Modelling to Sculpting and Animation from scratch.

Create Epic Characters

Character Sculpting both stylised and referenced has gained popularity due to the high demand for computer-generated images ( CGI ) for gaming, Animation and Resources. Whether you're starting out or intermediate this course is curated for you

Animate like a Pro

Animation is a very big industry ranging from soft body animation ( Computer generated realistic Human characters, cartoons and stylised characters) to Hardbody ( Mechanical models and Characters ). Blender is the perfect software for animation, and you'll be learning the fundamentals, from rigging the Bean character to creating the walk cycle animation to making your character walk, you don't need any prior knowledge of animation, you'll be learning everything from scratch.

Learn Everything From A to Z

There are many online resources to learn about character creation and animation. While most of them tell you what to do without telling you Why, this Course explains everything from A - Z leaving no topic about character creation and animation untouched.

Step-by-step guidance

Never used Blender before? Need not worry, this course gives a step-by-step guide to help you learn the basics so you follow through and enjoy the course as well, learning has never been this fun.

With over 17+ hours of video content, this course improves your professional knowledge to kickstart as a 3D Artist and Animator. Featuring the latest Blender 3.4 which is up to date and you'll get feature updates as well.

What will you learn in this course?

1. Blender basics including; how to download the latest version of Blender, the Blender interface explained, the fast approach to Modelling and Sculpting, Blender communities

2. Modelling the Bean gun

3. UV mapping, colour and texture nodes for creating any material

4. Sculpting the Bean

5. Using lights to make characters pop

6. Rigging and animating the walk cycle

You'll get the models to practice with alongside sites for resources.

Section overview

Section 1: Course Introduction

A brief introduction about what you'll learn along the whole section, with a guide on how to download the latest blender and more on speed, blender interface and modes.

Section 2: Modelling The Bean Gun

This section introduces you to Modelling while explaining the various Modelling tools as we model and texture the gun from start to finish using just a cube.

Section 3: Sculpting The Killer Bean Character

In this section we dive into Sculpting, here you learn the various Sculpting tools and how to use them and the best ones to speed up your workflow, You sculpt the killer bean character from start to finish using the skin modifier, the shrink wrap modifier and the multi-resolution modifier alongside the Sculpting brushes.

Section 4: Sculpting the shoe

Sculpting the shoe involves Sculpting more curved angles, we will use the same Sculpting tools, techniques and modifiers, and you'll learn more about the mirror modifier as well.

Section 5: Editing the suit

In this section you'll learn more about the shrinkwrap modifier for snapping faces of different meshes together with another means, we will create and edit the suit of the Bean from start to finish with a single plane.

Section 6: Working With materials, Colours and Texture nodes, lights

Here we learn about the principal Shaders which is the most used shader to create any material of choice, the colour nodes, and how to combine colour nodes with texture nodes to create any material of choice, we'll add colours and textures to our character in this section. You'll also learn the four types of lights in Blender and how to use them, the best light setup for your character and the Eevee and Cycles render engines in Blender.

Section 7: Rigging and Animation

In this section you'll learn about armatures ( bones ) for rigging characters, and weight painting for assigning body weights ( volume ) to bones. You'll learn about poses and the pose mode, keyframes, vertex groups, and the timeline and at the end of this section you'll be able to rig and animate a walk cycle for your character.

About me

Am promise sebastine, a 3D Artist, interested in cinematography, gaming and tech. Founder of promovies and Prostudios. I love playing chess, enjoy art alot. I Love Blender because of so much I can do with it. I love people and always wanna be part of their success.